Note on the Citavi Campus License
The TUHH’s current Citavi campus license is valid through March 2028. We will provide timely information regarding a possible extension beyond that date. Regardless of this, you can also purchase a personal Citavi license directly from Citavi. As a free alternative, we also recommend Zotero (see also: Importing Citavi projects into Zotero), for which the library offers comprehensive support.
The TUHH provides access to Citavi to all members of the university community, including students, through a campus license. Support is available from the library.
Citavi is a Windows-based standalone reference management program, but Mac users can use Citavi Web. Citavi is known for its comprehensive features and ease of use; its key strength compared to other programs is its knowledge management capabilities.
This blog post from June 2025 provides a brief overview of the new features in Version 7.
Included features:
- Capture quotes, thoughts, comments. Organize knowledge
- Automatically capture books by ISBN, capture e-books and articles by DOI
- Search resources worldwide in more than 4.500 data bases
- Manage references
- Analyze and highlight texts
- Save ideas and structure your work
- transfer information from the Internet into your Citavi projects with the help of the add-on program Citavi Picker
- Plan tasks – on your own or in a team
- Write the perfect paper, report, article, or book
Citavi Support
- Citavi-Short introduction (PDF in german)
- An Introduction to Literature Management and Knowledge Organization (Blogpost, German)
- Overview of Selected Features (Blogpost, German)
- Manual
- FAQ
- Import Citavi projects into Zotero (Blogpost, German)
- Import Citavi Web projects into Zotero (Blogpost and Handout, German)
For Questions and Training
Questions? We will be happy to advise you on reference management
Email: literaturverwaltung@tuhh.de.
Detlev Bieler
Telephone: +49 40 30601-3288
Florian Hagen
Telephone: +49 40 30601-3003
Alexander Unteutsch
Telephone: +49 40 30601-2855
You are also welcome to use our open online consultation hours via Zoom (identification code: 503035; meeting ID: 832 9724 8626) for questions regarding literature management (Fridays from 09:00 to 09:30).
Download and Installation
Citavi license
The TUHH is financing the continued use of Citavi and is extending the license for a further three years from April 2025.
From April 2025, TUHH members will be able to use both Citavi 6 and Citavi 7 as part of the campus license. Citavi Web will also be available.
Note on cloud usage of Citavi
If you use Citavi in the cloud, remember to regularly save your projects to a local computer for security.
Citavi installation
Download and install Citavi - Register for a Citavi account to get your licence key.
- Upgrade your free version to a licensed Citavi team version
- Import settings for TUHH
- Save CITAVI-Einstellungsdatei-TUHH.csd on your computer
- Citavi -> Tools -> Import or Export Settings.
- Choose Import
- Browse to the location of your download and then proceed with Next.
- Choose the settings you want to import
- Finish
Notes about the account:
- In case of problems with your TUHH-account, please contact the User Service Center of the TUHH Data Centre
- If you already have an Citavi-Account, you can link the access to TU Hamburg in your profile.